The folks that do want to do it themselves... are.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Fidelman" <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 12:59:37 PM Subject: Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 02/28/2015 08:59 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: >> 20 years ago was into AOL's prime, so yes they did. >> >> Great, let's re-evaluate the system when demand necessitates it. For >> many systems, it's literally as simple as changing how many channels >> are allocated to what directions. >> >> By that logic, we would have been running 486s with 32 gigs of RAM >> because some people today use that much. *shakes head* Obviously the >> majority of the dissent here works with OPM. >> >> > > The point is that the incumbents (= telephants) at the time looked at > even the > minuscule AOL user base with disdain saying that their market share > was irrelevant. > Even into the early 2000's these same guys thought that voice was the > only thing > that really mattered because the new fangled internet users were > outliers from their > pots bread and butter. We now know those outliers were important. > Being dismissive > of them is dangerous. > Actually, I think the incumbents do get it, at this point - at least Verizon does. FIOS is a pretty nice offering, and they offer some pretty high speeds, both up and down. It's just that they've stopped their buildout with the large markets; but they've been a power behind the state level anti-municipal broadband laws. Kind of annoying that, in areas where they have no intention of building out, they want to stand in the way of folks who want to do it themselves. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
